Been poking around that site today and I have to say they are very confident that they will win this game. Seems they believe we wont be able to score on their vaunted defense. Hope we shut them up quick

If Braxton were Ohio State's QB, I would laugh at Va Tech fans for being so confident. The fact that it is Barrett's second career start behind a OLine that struggled last week, I can't blame them. If I were Va Tech I would be confident as well (in the sense that being a homer always makes you more confident than you should be)

"We've always had the best damn band in the land, now we've got the band damn TEAM in the land"

To be fair, we've been playing Georgia Tech every year since Paul Johnson got there, and one of the few teams that's really had them figured out. I guess we should give you more than a year to get used to Navy. But beyond Navy, we were already hearing your secondary was "suspect". It's not so much our offense that we have confidence in, is our defense versus anybody's offense, particularly young OLs and first year QBs.

You don't understand; even against Bill & Mary, the accuracy and ball protection by the our QB & WR is almost palpable compared to previous years. If the Hokie offense is even average, our Hokie defense should more than keep us in this game.

8. SERIOUSLY. Do they have an intimidating mascot, like an angry sheep or a Harry Potter mythological creature?

A. To commemorate the origins of the school, they adopted the buckeye as their mascot. They have a guy who dresses up as an angry looking poisonous nut and they named him Brutus which is supposed to be super intimidating, so please act at least mildly annoyed if you see him.

Any school that pimps a castrated, maroon turkey on the sidelines as it's official mascot has zero business playing the Rate-a-Mascot game. Zero.

There is another thread on the site that dissects Barrett's performance, and the comments eventually trend towards an overall analysis of the 370 yards that Navy racked up on the ground, and whether or not our defense sucks or Navy got lucky with their scheme. Some pretty sensible fans admitting that rushing the ball 63 times in that formation is going to net yardage. Of course, those same posters almost always predict a Hokie victory this weekend, but it's Hokie site, so to be expected.

Thank the Maker that I was born in Ohio, cradle of coaches, US Presidents, confederate-stomping Generals, and home of The Ohio State University Football Buckeyes- 2014 UNDISPUTED National Champions!

Of course, those same posters almost always predict a Hokie victory this weekend, but it's Hokie site, so to be expected.

I read through a few of their threads, including the one you mentioned... they are really a confident bunch that are convinced that they are going to win Saturday. Amazing what a win over a terrible D1 team will do to fan bases psyche.

That's the thing that kept bugging me about the comments. I think some of them need to be reminded that they played an FCS team...

Example: "we'd also have to think based on last weeks performance that VT won't be throwing pick 6s and committing multiple turnovers.. giving our D a chance with a full field behind them.... it's hard to compare stats from one year to the next"

Dude, you played William and Mary School for the Blind. Let's be real.

Our confidence really has nothing to do with our performance against FCS. We have a pretty large sample size with the defense going back over a decade. All this FCS matchup (with one of the top D-lines at their level) did was allow us to breathe a little with our new QB and skill positions on offense. We don't need to see much; like your improvement over the course of the Navy game, just the fact that the ball wasn't turned over and no sacks were allowed is significant for us compared to the last few years, regardless of opponent.

No, our strength is on the defensive side, and we didn't need this FCS game to be confident. What really helped, unfortunately, is Braxton Miller's injury, young OL, and shortage of receivers. I'm glad his surgery went well, hope to see him in Blacksburg for a night game next year.

I agree 100% about the humor except when food is concerned. They really should have stopped the humor and given good, true, solid facts about eating in Columbus cause that's just what good, true, solid folks do no matter what.

Blacksburg's population would easily fit into the 'Shoe on a football Saturday; on the visitors side. The University is so far in the middle of nowhere that their "Corp of Cadets" still think that the "War between the States" is going on and their uniforms look like they are longing for the spirit of Robert E. Lee to save them from those damn Yankees again. The VA Tech Cadets took the time to learn how to pin more bling onto their uniforms than Sasha Baron Cohen in "The Dictator"...its too bad they never learned that Lee got his a** kicked by an Ohio boy (Grant) back then and that history always repeats itself. VA Tech struck me as Texas A&M without all of the Texas rednecks....they enrolled Southern rednecks instead. Even the hillbillies of West Virginia (which is just a lil ol way down the road) are glad there is a forest keeping the Blacksburgians (or whatever they call themselves) from coming north over their shared border. And that Turkey-wannabe "Hokiebird" mascot of theirs looks like he has the same diet as the Hokie from Ann Arbor: donuts and brats.

I laughed throughout the whole thing. Good humor there. I think they'll realize they're in deep trouble when OSU takes the field, no one gives a **** about text brutus at a night game, 'Shoe gonna be rockin.

I'm glad most of you found humor in the article, that was it's intended purpose. Also, many VT fans may be slightly overexcited about last weeks performance, but it is one of the rare times in the past few years that the VT offense actually looked like an offense.. of course the criticism is that it was only a FCS school, but it was only last year when a VT QB threw 2 INTs against a FCS school (this was not the only game in which he threw 2 picks vs a FCS school btw), so you'd have to understand how bad it's been in Blacksburg the last few years to appreciate the optimism now.